Which hotel program is most rewarding for paid stays? | Coffee Break Ep23 | 8-27-24
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
We know occasionally you may have to actually pay for a hotel night (instead of using your points and free night certificates.) In this episode we'll dissect how to even go about deciphering how rewarding your paid stays are.
(01:28) - How do we go about even calculating which hotel program is most rewarding on paid stays?
Read more about which hotel loyalty programs are most valuable here.
(03:17) - There are a few things our analysis did not consider...
(03:59) - Which programs are most rewarding when you're not using a hotel credit card and don't have elite status?
(06:11) - If you have top tier status, (but not necessarily a hotel credit card), which hotel program rewards you most for your paid stays?
Learn more about the Sonesta program here.
(08:56) - If you have both hotel status and the hotel branded credit card, which program is most rewarding for your paid stays.
(09:49) Learn more about the Wyndham Business Earner card here, and the Wyndham Earner Plus card here.
(10:51) - Lear more about the World of Hyatt card here.
(10:55) - Learn more about the Hilton Aspire card here.
(10:58) - Learn more about the IHG Premier card here, and the IHG Premier Business card here.
(11:54) - Learn more about the Bonvoy Brilliant card here.
(12:09) - Learn more about the Hilton Surpass card here, and the Hilton Business card here.
(13:22) - Consider elite programs and promotions
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're |
| 0:22.5 | calling coffee break. Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to |
| 0:28.5 | miles and points. And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. |
| 0:33.8 | Enjoy. Today's coffee break. Which hotel program is most rewarding for paid stays? |
| 0:42.3 | Now, we like to use our points and free night certificates for stays, but we know some people out there and occasionally book paid stays. |
| 0:51.3 | And to be honest, we do too every now and then. And so we took a look at, |
| 0:57.4 | we did a deep dive and looked at which ones offer the most like points and the most rewarding |
| 1:02.6 | points for paid stays. And we're going to cover that today. Yeah. In fact, I just wrapped up a paid |
| 1:07.9 | stay this morning. Checked out of a paid Hyatt stay this morning. So it'll be great to find out whether I made a good choice in paying for a Hyatt stay over another brand. So we'll talk more about that today. Don't forget you can subscribe to our email list and all our various podcasts and whatnot. If you go to Frequentmiler.com slash subscribe, join our email list and check out all of our different podcast types. This coffee break is a 20 minute segment, but if you like longer ones, we have those. And if you like shorter ones, we've got card talks also. So lots of different stuff on this channel. All right, let's get into this week's topic. So how do we know or how do we even determine which is most rewarding? Because they all offer different numbers of points, right? |
| 1:45.7 | So I mean, this one might be three or six or nine or 12 or 15. |
| 1:49.0 | How do you even compare apples to oranges in a fair way? |
| 1:52.8 | Yeah, that's a great question because the points are not equal. |
| 1:56.4 | When you look at Hyatt points and compare them to Hilton points, |
| 1:59.6 | for example, despite the |
| 2:01.6 | commonality in the first letter of the names, the points are very, very different in value. |
| 2:09.6 | We see Hyatt points being worth at least three times Hilton points on average. |
| 2:16.6 | And so you have to take that into account. And the way we do that, |
| 2:21.2 | we have these values that we call reasonable redemption values. And basically, we look at the different |
| 2:26.7 | hotel chains, look at a number of stays in the United States. And we do that because most people redeem their points in the United |
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